Publication Type

Journal Article

Version

acceptedVersion

Publication Date

1-2000

Abstract

Increasingly managers need to distinguish between those oftheir activities and practices that can be successfully transferred acrossnational boundaries and those that will require modification in view ofdivergences between national settings. This can be determined by initiallyidentifying those features of managing organizations that remain similar acrossnational boundaries and those that are different, and then ascertaining thestrength of the forces for convergence or divergence. This article describes anexploratory attempt to conduct a polycentric (in the terms described below)research study of conceptions of human resource management in seven Europeancountries. It examines whether there is a single, shared conception of HRM thattranscends national boundaries, or whether there are multiple national meaningsreflecting a variety of cultural and institutional contexts that cannot beintegrated into a single truly "international,""transnational," or European model. This research is presented as adistinctive contribution to the debate on the global convergence of management.

Discipline

Human Resources Management | Organizational Behavior and Theory

Research Areas

Organisational Behaviour and Human Resources

Publication

International Studies of Management and Organization

Volume

29

Issue

4

First Page

84

Last Page

100

ISSN

0020-8825

Identifier

10.1080/00208825.1999.11656777

Publisher

Taylor & Francis (Routledge): SSH Titles

Copyright Owner and License

Authors

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1080/00208825.1999.11656777

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